It was always just a hopeful myth
Americans have long cherished a belief that the Constitution and other laws of their republic have precedence as rules for making decisions, over the actions and opinions of individual people. However, in one 6-to-3 decision yesterday, the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court destroyed that myth.
Human laws are neither self-interpreting nor self-enforcing. They are officially interpreted by lawyers and judges and enforced by law-enforcement agencies.
The fact that six justices who are currently members of the U.S. Supreme Court, charged with interpreting the U.S. Constitution, decided that a President of the United States is immune from prosecution for crimes that person may have committed as official acts of the Presidency, demonstrates in itself that the U.S. is ultimately a nation of people, not of laws.
For the members of the Court who issued that ruling are themselves, as people, decision-makers above the U.S. Constitution.
All the worse that their decision also makes the President, in important ways, a decision-maker above the Constitution and other laws.
What can be done about it? Nothing other than to recognize that as social animals we humans do ultimately make decisions with our individual brains as synchronized to a large extent by our imperfect communication of ideas through our use of language. Be aware.
